{"id":191,"date":"2012-03-21T20:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2013-07-24T20:37:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T20:37:22","slug":"how-to-make-a-great-voiceover-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/how-to-make-a-great-voiceover-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a Great Voiceover Demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>You want to know how to make a great voice over demo?\u00a0 Don\u2019t make one at all.\u00a0 Okay, well, don\u2019t make one until you read this.\u00a0 Choosing where to make your demo has become a bit more involved.\u00a0 Here\u2019s why:\u00a0 there are many many places that will offer something like this,\u00a0 \u201cSign up now for your 4-week voiceover training session which will conclude with your demo production.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Red flag there.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What is essentially being said by places that offer to make your demo upfront, regardless of whether it comes with some training or not is this:\u00a0 we want your money whether you have achieved the skills needed or not.\u00a0 As a voice over demo producer, I have seen firsthand the eagerness with which the voice over student approaches the demo-making process.\u00a0 They are excited\u00a0 &#8211; this is to be their business card to the industry, their show-off moment, their voice over work of art!\u00a0 This is to the advantage of the demo-production company, but not to the student.\u00a0 Love, or rather excitement, is blind, or rather\u00a0 . . . deaf.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For the first ten years of voice over demo production I chose not to even advertise.\u00a0 I knew I would only offer this service to a student I was already coaching when I knew without a doubt that he or she was ready to make an AMAZING demo.\u00a0 I had no desire to take money from someone if I knew it could potentially make him or her, and me, look bad.\u00a0 What is now being done at Voiceover Gurus is offering \u00a0this service as a \u201cby-audition-only\u201d\u00a0 service \u2013 guaranteeing that a student will only be making a demo when they should be.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I\u00a0 recommend to all my students having \u00a0that \u201cmake me a demo\u201d feeling that they first get a professional assessment of their skill level.\u00a0 Hire a coach or take a class and ask the instructor afterward.\u00a0 The only place you will not get this proper and honest assessment is those places I mentioned above.\u00a0 Protect your money and your reputation by choosing carefully.\u00a0 This is, after all, your golden opportunity \u2013 even if it only represents one minute and thirty seconds of potential fame. \u00a0So, make it sound good.\u00a0 You only get one chance to make a first impression.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to know how to make a great voice over demo?\u00a0 Don\u2019t make one at all.\u00a0 Okay, well, don\u2019t make one until you read this.\u00a0 Choosing where to make your demo has become a bit more involved.\u00a0 Here\u2019s why:\u00a0 there are many many places that will offer something like this,\u00a0 \u201cSign up now for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-over-gurus-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}